Re: One Word: Staples.... Office Supply Store

I don't know where you live, but the Staples in Frisco, TX where I live has been an inexpensive godsend on more than one occasion. Find an office supply store with a "copy desk" to help you with what you need.

I live in St. Louis, and the nearest Staples is in the Ozarks. But we have Office Max and Office Depot. Office Max is where I've been going so far.

They have a "copy" desk, but it does far more than copies. Take your book down there, let someone look at it. It sounds like you simply need a tabs that are just a little bit wider than the page protectors. Or smaller page protectors. Staples (or any decent office supply store) will have that, and people who can help you.

Yeah, I don't think there are smaller page protectors, but maybe a little wider tabs.. or even a wider notebook. Guess I'll have to go back to the office store, just feeling like we've already spent a lot on this project... sigh.

My son bought a $15 magazine a couple of weeks ago, with all the "tips" for his Pokemon Sapphire game. The pages started coming out. When he returned to the store where he bought it, they were out of stock.

So, we went down to the copy desk at Staples and they cut the non-working glue binder off the magazine, punched holes in it, and put a plastic binder on it. We added clear plastic cover pages on the front and back. The lady even clipped the corners, so he would not "poke" himself. Total cost: $1.88. I would have paid 5 times that.

So, find yourself a good office supply store with a copy desk, and get yourself fixed up. They will help you make it look good!

Thanks, I'll ask their input this time instead of trying to pick out what works on my own.

Nightowl >8#

Sorry it has taken me so long to get in here and update this!

I went back to Office Max on Sunday, TWICE, actually. First we got a wider notebook, called a Design View Binder, even had a nice pocket on the front to center a title page in. Then we got wider tabs, but when I brought them home, they clashed with my color scheme. mostly the orange ones, and I couldn't do orange type in Word. I can do it in Excel, but not Word.

So, determined and all, we went BACK to Office Max, one half hour before they were about to close, and found tabbed page protectors!!! They had clear tabs so I could use my original color scheme! I designed a cover framing my heading with a number of the programs I'd used, and it looked awesome.

I assembled the basics of it all Sunday night, and showed it to one of my former employers at the college where I attend, (not the one I was fired from), and she loved it! She especially loved the color scheme, which made me glad I stuck to keeping it!

Anyway, I have a few bits and pieces to do, insert sheets for the dividers,labels for the documents, and etc, and a few other final touches, but it's well on its way to being complete!

Thanks for the suggestion! BTW, the copy desk was no help, some high school kid sitting there, looked bored. But, the salesclerk in the store was a great help, found us the dividers and everything, and was more than eager to help out!

So thanks again!

Nightowl >8#

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